Platform Software Test Engineer
Description
Ventana Micro Systems is at the forefront of the two hottest trends that are revolutionizing the semiconductor industry: RISC-V and Chiplet Architecture. Check out our CEO talking with global tech analyst Patrick Moorhead about how Ventana combines the extensibility of RISC-V with chiplet technology to create customer-driven innovation for best-in-class solutions for the data center.
The company is well-funded and backed by some of the largest strategic investors in the industry with the goal of building best-in-class CPU cores for cloud, enterprise, 5G, and Edge computing. We invite you to join the revolution and contribute to one of the hottest Semiconductor startups in the industry
Roles: Staff/Senior Staff/Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Multiple Openings
Locations: Pune, Bangalore, San Francisco Bay Area
Position: Full time with immediate start
Skills and Qualifications Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related engineering fields
- 8+ years of software QA experience with familiarity in C/C++, Python or Perl
- Hand-on experience in building test plans, running functional tests, stress tests and preparing test reports for CPU and SoC side interfaces like PCIe, DDR and such.
- Hands-on experience with test automation, scripting, nightly regressions
- Hands-on experience in performance benchmarking, performance tools and fault isolation on multi-core systems.
- Hands-on experience running benchmarks like Dhrystone, Coremark, LMBench, STREAM, SPECCPU2017 and more running in a Linux environment.
- Experience with cloud workloads like Memcached, NGINX, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra etc.
- Experience in Linux application, kernel, profiling, analyzing system bottlenecks and performance optimization - knowledge of perf, flame graphs and getting visibility into performance bottlenecks.
- Hands-on experience with the GNU/LLVM tool chain and debuggers like GDB
- Ability to work independently and across geographies with hardware, software development and product management teams.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills and good English communications skills, both verbal and writing.
Skills and Qualifications Desirable
- Good understanding of CPU architecture, ARM or X86. RISC-V architectural knowledge would be an added plus.
- Experience in firmware, bios, kernel, and application layers including hardware accelerators.
- Experience working in multi-core, multi-process/thread environment.
- Knowledge of open-source Linux, git repository maintenance and source code management
EEOE
Ventana is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
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